Translating Wor(l)ds

Collana di studi sulla traduzione e traduzioni delle lingue asiatiche e nordafricane

Contre-fiction politique

Liu Cixin et Han Song

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Abstract

Contemporary Chinese fiction possesses an unexpected critical force exemplified by science-fiction, a newly burgeoning literary genre. It entails examples of political counter-fiction that deconstruct the storytelling of the Chinese dream and the founding myth of a prosperous and peaceful power. This study focuses on the writers Liu Cixin and Han Song, whose work is centred on this irreverent imagination through alternative narrations, which explore the possibilities of histories that never happened and the significance of their bifurcation.


open access | peer reviewed

Submitted: Oct. 30, 2017 | Accepted: Nov. 10, 2017 | Published Dec. 15, 2017 | Language: fr

Keywords Alternative story • Red Star Over America • Han Song • Liu Cixin • Great Wall • Political contre-fiction • Mers de l’Ouest

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Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-203-4/TW-1-4


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